Christ Washes the Disciples' Feet (Caracciolo)
Christ Washes the Disciples' Feet is a 1622 oil on canvas painting by Battistello Caracciolo for the church of the Certosa di San Martino in Naples, where it still hangs.[1] It is held to be one of the artist's masterpieces.[1]
History
[edit]Commissioned in April 1622 according to the allocation contract (which survives in Naples' state archives), it was hung on the left wall of the choir of the church that September[2] and later joined on the same wall by Ribera's The Last Supper.[3] It marked Caracciolo's triumphant return to Naples after a long absence, probably involving a visit to Rome, work in Genoa and a stay in Florence.
References
[edit]- ^ a b (in Italian) Nicola Spinosa, Pittura del Seicento a Napoli - da Caravaggio a Massimo Stanzione, Napoli, Arte'm, 2008, pp. 177-178.
- ^ J. Nicholas Napoli, The Ethics of Ornament in Early Modern Naples: Fashioning the Certosa di San Martino, Londra, 2015, p.159.
- ^ (in Italian) Stefano Pierguidi, Il programma iconografico del coro della Certosa di San Martino: dal Cavalier d'Arpino a Massimo Stanzione, in Napoli Nobilissima, I, 2015, pp. 18-25.